Meeting today’s sustainability requirements

The world is transitioning towards a more sustainable future, and reducing emissions is the key focus of governments, corporations, and individuals globally.

The building and construction sector accounts for almost 40% of all annual carbon emissions from the operation and construction phases. Embodied carbon or upfront carbon, is all the emissions from the construction phases of a building, including the energy and impacts from manufacturing every finish and fitting within the building.

The Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) and over 1100 local architectural practices have declared action against climate change and have set goals to reduce embodied carbon in new buildings to net zero by 2030.

The Green Building Council sets the benchmark for buildings and products, driving change to favour supply chains that are transparent, healthy, carbon neutral and circular. The Responsible Product Framework developed by the GBCA requires all products used in Green Star projects to meet certain requirements across both independent certification and proof of a valid and current Environmental Product Declaration (EPD). An EPD documents the full makeup and lifecycle of a product and allows one to understand the true impacts of a product across several common categories from raw material extraction, to manufacture, transport and use, and end-of-use stage.

Marmoleum - the carbon and circular champion

Marmoleum is a flooring product that is future-ready, now. A carbon champion that is carbon neutral from cradle to gate, its natural raw materials absorb more carbon during their growth phase than is required to manufacture the flooring. Marmoleum also contains a high percentage of recycled content in its makeup and end-of-life recycling options.

In addition to the product itself, for every square metre installed in Australia, local climate partner Carbon Positive, plants native trees and shrubs to create long-term carbon sinks, not as an offset program, but rather as a regeneration of local habitat that has been cleared or damaged, restoring parts of native Australia to what it was before. Marmoleum can help lower a building’s overall embodied carbon footprint and resource consumption, thus helping to meet climate goals. Being a